If you don't want to get locked in to Claude Code, you can pay more. Just like you can pay more for an unlocked non-carrier subsidized phone. (Which I personally do.)

> If you want to autocomplete, like I do, you don’t need Fable, or even Opus; Sonnet works fine.

It reads like "if you want to go to the grocery store, you don't need a space shuttle, or even a SR-71 Blackbird; a Cessna works fine."

https://support.claude.com/en/articles/15036540-use-the-clau...

https://the-decoder.com/anthropic-backs-off-unpopular-billin...

So... maybe we can still use third party harnesses with Claude Code subscriptions... for now? Until they change their mind again?

Thats not true at all. You can use the Agent SDK [1], which uses your subscription [2]. I use it via ACP [3] with custom system prompts and tooling. I have found it very powerful and flexible. It has its own agent loop, of course, so maybe thats the limitation using it with opencode?

[1] https://code.claude.com/docs/en/agent-sdk/overview

[2] They were talking about giving credits for the SDK usage rather than it using your allowance directly, but that seems to have been put on hold for now. If and when that changes, I will likely jump ship, but I am more than happy with it right now.

[3] there isn't an official ACP wrapper - zed have one but its quite limited. its trivial to build one though, or you can just use the SDK directly and wire it into your interface of choice.

Whenever you are faced with a corpo you should conceptualize it as a system that will happily mow you over for increased profits, unless it is legally bound to not prioritize profits above everything else and its structural incentives push it in a pro-social direction.

Edit: I forgot they also don't let me use remote control (which isn't that good anyway) with a oauth key in the env var! So i have to get on a terminal and do the whole login flow for my containerized agents. Massive pain, so lame.

Migrating my skills/agents and config was fairly straightforward.

Pi's agent harness seems to be more responsive and quicker than CC (perhaps with the prompt caching and squashing it does behind the scenes)

Tempted to do a write-up on migration.

I am only using Pi with Github Copilot as I am scared I will get my Claude account banned if I use the Oauth with Pi.

pi.dev

Nowadays I went from Claude 20x to 5x and been using the GLM model on OpenCode... No regrets.

You can say it's inconvenient but it's hard to argue they're being greedy when they do these things to merely lose a little bit less money on every subscription they sell.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48597861

Edit: Compare to the fourth article on the front page:

  4. - Road to Elm 1.0 (elm-lang.org) | 181 points, 4 hours ago

How many businesses are actually dependent on Claude? As in - Anthropic’s pricing or licensing changes can kill their business?

How many developers are “Claude developers” and can’t be effective with other tools?

This discussion is full of people saying they won’t use Claude anymore, and presumably some of them will actually do that. That’s good, there are alternatives.

No need to picture general anti-AI stance as some kind of herecy to be punished by the Inquisition Of The Holy Progress.

Their only options. They have to eventually show a return on the investment bonfire that they have been burning. This is apparently all they are teaching at business school now, since it seems to be what almost all companies are doing.

In another year the open source models will be good enough for almost anything.

When your choices are a Cadillac or a bicycle, a lot of people will take the Cadillac. When you add in the option of a Hyundai, that gets the job done for a huge number of needs.

If agi why not agi shaped?

This is a non-sequitur.

Most consumer apps don't even list all the bugfixes.

By all means, put pressure on companies who are doing this. Public opinion does matter. But the fundamentals are just not going to change without regulation. It is a tough nut to crack.

I wouldn’t call Fable “enshittification.”

Anthropic knows what they have.

I’m looking around for the article with the marketshare chart over time and I’ll update my comment if I find it.

This is the closest article I could find, though the one I had read earlier had a nice graph and was updated to 2026:

https://chatforest.com/guides/anthropic-overtakes-openai-ent...

Here’s a decent one:

https://menlovc.com/perspective/2025-the-state-of-generative...

LLM Market Share: Anthropic Extends Its Lead in the Enterprise

Fable returning wrong answers if it suspects the topic is sensative is the ultimate icing on the huge cake of lies and gaslighting they’ve been baking the past 6 months.

I spent a few weeks in the OpenClaw Discord and there was a competitive sport there where people were posting screenshots of how many hundreds of billions of tokens they were burning per day. It was like what I saw a while back with people on r/DataHoarder abusing the unlimited free storage plans and putting petabytes of torrents onto them. (Well, not technically abusing ;)

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EDIT: Oh my goodness and I forgot the black market for Anthropic tokens (70-90% discounted, which seems to strongly imply they come from the subscriptions)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5paRa6E5rCM

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That being said it does also of course make normal users sad.

(My harness uses less tokens than Claude Code! But I'm not allowed to use it, because we can't have nice things.)

Don't quote me on this but I recall (in March?) OpenAI saying it's totally cool to use your sub with 3rd party stuff, on like the same day when Anthropic was being grilled hard for their changes. (Never interrupt your opponent when he is making a mistake!) I don't know if they can keep that up though, now that the VC money apparently ran out and everyone needs to actually become profitable overnight.

Open models like GLM 5.2 are getting good enough to handle 90% of tasks, and will eat most of their usage unless they start serving it at cost. And on the 1% work they fearmongered their way into falling under government control, which will limit how much they can commercialize the frontier.

Nobody will keep paying their premiums and put up with their BS when they can have similar models at cost of inference in any harness that they want.

If you want a look at the timeline where the microwave solved cooking, this was an interesting article: https://malmesbury.substack.com/p/my-journey-to-the-microwav.... You can apparently sear meat with a microwave (provided you have the necessary pan).

People who don't wanna spend too much on LLMs and are trying to optimize whats subsidized even on the Max plans are customers Anthropic is honestly better off without.

If you're a software engineer you should do your best to advocate for more open tools and treat this company as radioactive.

Opencode/Pi/ohmypi are much better than claude code. And with models like GLM/Kimi/Qwen you can get really really far. Add in a design tool like Paper so your AI can "see" what it's designing and you can close the gap incredibly tight.

Try it and free yourself.

Of course they won't give you thousands of dollars of inference for a couple hundred bucks without making sure you're properly tied to their walled garden.

Yeah, of course Dario and any other Anthropic spoke person will vastly exaggerate the capabilities of their product and promote vibe coding and now "loop engineering", just like Coca-Cola would love for you to drink gallons of Diet Coke everyday, just like Oracle some twenty ago promoted for Enterprises that they could just use Oracle Databases to serve web applications right from the DB, as this would force you to use more CPUs and Oracle DB is licensed by core.

The business model for inference is metered usage, more usage => mode money. Again, the subscription model is just a bump in the road to acquire customers, once you're metered, the more you use, the better for anthropic.

Why people get surprised with that stuff?

But surely those fully autonomous coding loops will solve all those 9,100+ open issues on GitHub? Why haven't they?

What happened to Claude's C Compiler [0], or that browser "built from scratch" by Cursor? [1]

Why aren't the agents maintaining it if they are supposed to be cheaper than humans?

> But why do they have us by the balls? Dario and Boris have us convinced that “coding is solved” with their loops. But microwaves didn’t solve cooking.

They have you by the balls if you allow them to, if you continue to listen to their bullshit.

Both of them are essentially salesmen at this point. They don't care if they are wrong and will sell Claude to whoever is thinking of planning the next mass layoff. Their definition of "AGI" is different to yours.

The correct answer to all of this pricing nonsense that Anthropic and others are doing is local open weight models that you run on your own machine. They know this and powerful local models undercut their entire business model if hosted by others or if a smaller local model matches the performance of larger ones.

[1] https://github.com/anthropics/claudes-c-compiler

[0] https://github.com/wilsonzlin/fastrender